And the fire broke out in the early hours of this morning between 12 and one oclock. The first call to the Metropolitan Police was at 1 15am. The blaze, you can see now there are no flames this stage, just smoke, and you can see the damage done to the building. Lets give you a sense from the images last night from the early hours of the morning. You can get a real sense of the scale of the blaze that was engulfing the building. Lets tell you about who is tackling the fire at the moment. Around 200 firefighters, a0 fire engines, and of course London Ambulance has sent a number of vehicles and medical staff to the scene. 0ur Correspondent is at the scene this morning. Tell us what you can see. Well, you can see the block is still alight. You can see some flames there. You can see the Fire Brigade Hosing down the lower reaches of the building. But the fire service said that this was a blaze reaching from the second floor right up to the 27th floor. Its been a blaze for five hours now. We
earlier i spoke to the vice chair of the external relations the republicans overseas uk. he was critical of the charges trump faces. this situation mirrors many historical moments where there has been a top down political prosecution of politics. you can go back tojulius prosecution of politics. you can go back to julius caesar, prosecution of politics. you can go back tojulius caesar, hitler, there are so many moments in history where this sort of witch hunt prosecution has occurred. right now, what is going on, they are galvanising the republican base, giving them exactly what they want, the trump supporters, and you are going to make sure that he is the nominee for the republican party and that is who the republican party and that is who the democrat party think they have the democrat party think they have the best chance of beating. they do not want to go against ron desantis, in middle of the road candidate, they want the controversy and negative political threats to mount